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Excerpt: "For the 2024–25 benefit year, families can receive up to $7,787 per child under the age of 6 and $6,570 per child aged 6 through 17. This means moms and dads could receive up to $350 more than last year. This represents an increase of 4.7% from the previous year. The »»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿ Child Benefit has been indexed to inflation using Consumer Price Index data as reported by Statistics »»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿â€”a widely used measure of inflation. Indexing the »»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿ Child Benefit occurs every July, ensuring that the benefit protects families from inflation and provides certainty and predictability of support parents can count on."

A celebration was held to honour Professor Njoki Wane, who is retiring from her role as chair of the Department of Social Justice Education.

Le CREFO offrira quatre cours en français aux sessions d'automne 2024 et d'hiver 2025

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Excerpt: "The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) and the Northwest Territories Early Childhood Association (NWTECA) have agreed on terms of reference to guide their partnership to establish an early learning and child care system that provides quality programs and supports licensed family day homes and centre-based programs. The GNWT and the NWTECA hold regular meetings to discuss important matters affecting the sector. The goal of this agreement is to foster transparency between the GNWT, the NWTECA’s board, and its members to ensure that licensed program operators and early childhood educators fully understand changes to the sector and how they will be impacted."

Excerpt: "New annual reporting requirements will provide the public with additional insight into how much government funding is being invested in child care in B.C., as well as the outcomes achieved from this funding. Also starting Sept. 1, 2024, enhanced affordable child care benefit supports will be available to families when their child care is arranged or recommended by an Indigenous authority under Indigenous law. This means families will receive the same support with their child care costs, regardless of whether their child care is arranged or recommended by the Ministry of Children and Family Development, Indigenous Child and Family Service Agencies, or under Indigenous law. Families, child care providers and early childhood educators will continue to receive the same level of support from the current fee reductions, operational funding and wage-enhancement programs through the Early Learning and Child Care Act."

The Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies (CIARS) at the University of Toronto, in collaboration with its partners, will host a transformative two-week Summer Institute in Accra, Ghana from August 9-24, 2025.

Excerpt: "Knowing Our Numbers (KON) is a comprehensive, province-wide study involving the College of Early Childhood Educators and 43 out of 47 children’s service system managers in »»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿. Almost 6,000 educators responded to surveys targeted to RECEs, non-RECEs, program directors, and home child care providers. The data were supplemented by regional focus groups, service system analysis, and related demographic and labour force information. The sector is far from monolithic—it is impacted by differences in geography and organizational structure. As is the norm for studies of this type, respondents are likely to be RECEs and more vested. When their answers are put in the context of the other data, they reveal a workforce under stress and ill-supported to meet the demands placed on it. "

The OISE Graduate Students' Association (GSA) team is recruiting volunteers for the 2024-2025 academic year.

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Excerpt: "The Manitoba government has made amendments to the Child Care Regulation to increase the operating grants for all licensed and provincially funded early learning and child-care facilities, federal Families, Children and Social Development Minister Jenna Sudds and Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning Minister Nello Altomare announced today. The amendments brought into force a 2.75 per cent increase to the wage grid supplement provided to facilities, effective July 1, and a five percent increase to the base operating grants, retroactively effective April 1."